“When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth —Persian Proverb” — Jennifer Fallon Copy Share Image
“We are about to live the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“They say, 'There is a time and a place for everything,' but I refuse to find a time or place for dwelling… — Mahree Moyle Copy Share Image
“Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune means an acid test of friendship. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
There will be times when life will knock us down. But it is up to us whether to stand up again or… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to… — French Proverb Copy Share Image
“You know you're prepared for what's next in life when the possibility of misfortune is at your door and it doesn't matter… — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
Do not grieve. Misfortune will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Instead of dwelling on the misfortunes of yesterday be grateful for the power of today. Becoming aware of this life lesson will… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at… — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“To lose one child, Mr. DeTamble, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.” — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“You don’t want to be loved for your misfortune; I don’t want to be loved for my possessions. Are we not similar… — Julianne Donaldson Copy Share Image
In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue. — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
“But if love is a human sickness and a mental weakness, it must not be blamed as mistake, but claimed as misfortune.” — Gorgias of Leontini Copy Share Image
Some days bring misfortunes such as Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“All this, this luck – what did it mean? Coming so suddenly, and on such a scale, it was as baffling as… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
“The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself—but you just can’t… — Joseph Frank Copy Share Image
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both. — George Sand Copy Share Image
